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Batman: Reborn (Part 7)
By Carnotaur3
EXT. SHOES GALORE SHOP – STORMY NIGHT
Rain pounds on tin roofs, clanging through the air like animals were running past them.
Through all the drippings and splashing, there is a new noise, a motor from a vehicle.
The vehicle stops in front of the shoe shop and out pops DETECTIVE SPACEY, his eyes seeking around. He quickly heads to the front door and cuts the yellow tape.
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INT. SHOES GALORE SHOP – DARK
SPACEY walks on the floor of the shop, making the woodwork creak every few seconds. He shines his flashlight around. We know what he’s searching for, and in a matter of seconds he spots it.
The SINK CABINET was about a few yards away and he speeds to it, opening the doors and throwing his hands into the deep darkness inside.
His flashlight shines in and he finds the glass container with the liquid, or what was left of it, still inside.
He smirks in spite of it and places his wet fingers around the bottle. Once he is up, the lightning from outside glowed inside and revealed someone else in the SHOP.
But darkness smothered the light once again and SPACEY is left shocked.
VOICE
Do you know who I am?
BEAT.
SPACEY
(Shaky voice)
Who are you?
DELUDION
It’s me, detective, Deludion.
SPACEY grasps the flask more firmly this time.
SPACEY
How did you know I was a detective?
DELUDION
I’ve seen you around. Hell, I’m always around, so it’s not hard to miss you.
SPACEY
What do you want?
DELUDION
That fucking stuff in your hand!
SPACEY
You aren’t getting it.
Frightened, SPACEY charts his hand around to his belt buckle which, in turn, pushes an alarm. A little red button blinks twice, then, beats twice again. Each two beeps skipping a beat.
DELUDION
Are you afraid of me, Spacey?
SPACEY
No.
DELUDION
Why do you shake as if you do?
SPACEY
Because I’m waiting for the right moment to jump your ass.
DELUDION smirks and then bursts out laughing.
DELUDION
Ha, you really think you can take me? Hundreds of policemen try to take me down and I escape, but one man, a detective, puts me down instead? You are pathetic.
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INT. POLICE ROOFTOP – STORMY
As the rain continues, a guard on the police department’s roof takes out his walkie-talkie, listing to COMMISSIONER GORDON.
COMMISSIONER GORDON
Turn on the BATSIGNAL. NOW!
GUARD
Yes, sir.
The guard rushes towards the BATSIGNAL and switches the light on.
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INT. WAYNE MANOR – DARK
BRUCE WAYNE looks out of the humongous window inside the ball room, looking at the light on the clouds with a cutout of the BATMAN symbol.
ALFRED (O.S.)
Do you want a rain coat with the suit, sir?
BRUCE turns around. ALFRED is smiling.
ALFRED (cont’d)
It’s going to be a rainy night.
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INT. SHOES GALORE SHOP – DARK
LIGHTNING flashes again as DELUDION pushes forward towards SPACEY.
SPACEY
Don’t take another step! I’ll kill you in a heart beat.
DELUDION
Tell me, detective, how can you kill me if you can’t move your arms.
SPACEY looks down to his arm, seeing his wrists chained up to the wall. He pushes them forward a few times, clanging the chains.
DELUDION laughs out loud.
DELUDION (cont’d)
How about insects, detective, do you like insects?
Suddenly, on the floor, beetles and roaches crawl around. Thousands upon thousands of them just crawl on each other.
SPACEY screams.
SPACEY
STOP IT! STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
DELUDION
I don’t think bugs are scary enough, how about snakes?
The bugs morph into the slithering reptiles, but SPACEY doesn’t let out a sound. His eyes don’t move and his arms go backward as his body jolts down. The chains keep him from falling to the floor.
DELUDION (cont’d)
I’ll be damned.
DELUDION places two fingers on his neck. No pulse.
DELUDION (cont’d)
Scared to death!
He laughs some more and grabs the container out of SPACEY’S death grip hands.
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EXT. SHOES GALORE SHOP – STORMY
DELUDION knocks down the door with one powerful kick and walks out.
But before he can go any further, BATMAN lands on the flooded pavement. Water splashes around his boots.
BATMAN looks up, the cold eyes staring at DELUDION like an aiming sniper gun.
DELUDION
Ah, you again. Well, I guess you had a terrible day too, I imagine.
BATMAN
No, you are the first to damper the day for me.
DELUDION
Then, let me damper it more!
DELUDION spouts fire out of the palm of his hand. BATMAN leaps in the air catching onto a STEEL WALL LADDER. After grasping onto the bars, the ladder gives way, and falls downward, knocking DELUDION down, the flask falling into a brown cardboard box.
The ladder attempts to fall to his head, but DELUDION grasps the first bar so it wouldn’t go further. With all his might, DELUDION pushes the ladder into the air with BATMAN still on it.
BATMAN jumps off and clings onto a window sill. His hands go for his buckle in which he unleashes the grapple hook. The grapple hooks onto DELUDION’S ankle and he’s tripped.
BATMAN pushes the button on his buckle; the grapple pulling DELUDION towards him.
He sits up and takes the wire into his hands and then swerves his arm around the wire in order to get a better grip on it. He then PULLS hard at the wire and BATMAN falls out of the window sill and hits against the wall, bricks falling into the puddles of water on the alley asphalt.
BATMAN looks up in agony and presses a button on his utility belt.
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EXT. CITY STREET – STOMRY
The BATMOBILE sits on a city street corner; a few people with umbrellas pass by it and gaze at its awkward look. Then, they jump when the engine suddenly starts and the headlights beam out.
The BATMOBILE speeds out, and the people run onto the sidewalk.
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EXT. SHOES GALORE SHOP – STORMY
BATMAN steers out of the way from an oncoming foot. The foot stomps onto the floor creating a crater and loose asphalt.
BATMAN
Give it up, Tod. You can’t win.
DELUDION
How do you know my name?
BATMAN
Research.
DELUDION runs at his and uppercuts him in the air.
DELUDION
Stay out of my personal life!
BATMAN gasps for air.
DELUDION (cont’d)
Because your parents died, you think you can come here and tell me right from wrong.
BATMAN
You already know – right – from – wrong. In this case, you chose the wrong.
DELUDION
Listen to yourself. You are a fool.
BATMAN kicks up at DELUDION’S chest and he is sent sailing in the air and onto the windshield of a nearby driving car.
The glass spider-webs.
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EXT. CITY STREET – STORMY
The BATMOBILE swerves across a corner, almost hitting a parked BUICK. Suddenly, lights from another parked car turn on. It’s the CRONIE’S CAR.
They follow close behind the BATMOBILE.
One of the CRONIE’S sits up out of the rooftop window with a machine gun and open fires of the black vehicle.
Bullets ricochet off easily leaving no marks.
The CRONIES gain closer.
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EXT. SHOES GALORE SHOP – STORMY
BATMAN jumps on the hood of the car and kneels down, punching DELUDION in the face several times, almost knocking him out.
BATMAN
Why do you wear a mask over who you are?
DELUDION
Ditto.
BATMAN
This is who I am?
DELUDION
Is it – Bruce Wayne?
BATMAN’S eyes go wide.
DELUDION (cont’d)
Was it never obvious? Who couldn’t tell that my greatest admirer was a bat?
BATMAN
If I’m such a role model to you how about you follow my rules!
DELUDION places his hand onto BATMAN’S chest and he’s flung backward by a ball of fire. BATMAN skids across the pavement.
Getting up, DELUDION finds himself dizzy and confused. He blows some more fire out of his hand, but it totally misses BATMAN by several feet away. He tries again, tripping over his own feet in the process.
Fire takes off onto a building but burns nothing.
BATMAN, dreary, gets up only to find the BATMOBILE stop right beside him.
BATMAN
Perfect timing.
BATMAN opens the cabin and jumps in, sliding back the window door.
DELUDION regains some balance and flashes a fire bolt onto the vehicle. Steam rolls off the sides but nothing burns.
The BATMOBILE takes off full speed and turns a corner.
Another vehicle rounds the bend up ahead, the cronies. They speed faster towards the dark night’s car.
DELUDION
Get him, you bunch of pussies, get him!
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EXT. CITY STREET – STORMY
As the BATMOBILE picks up more speed with the rear rocket powered engine, the CRONIES do the same, speeding through the night like a Blue Jay after a Robin.
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INT. BATMOBILE – DARK
BATMAN switches on his ON SCREEN MAP.
BATMAN
Alfred, can you get me an estimate of how long it could be before I get to CENTER HILL?
ALRED comes onto the screen.
ALFRED
From where you are I should say about five minutes tops, Master Bruce.
BATMAN
Thanks, Alfred.
BATMAN steers the car left around a corner.
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EXT. CITY STREET – STORMY
The CRONIES follow close behind, one of the men jumping back up from the inside of the car to the top window with a BAZOOKA in hand.
The BATMOBILE speeds up leaving them farther behind.
As the vehicle steers out of the way from a TRASHCAN, the CRONIE fires the BAZOOKA.
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INT. BATMOBILE – DARK
On the screen, BATMAN watches as the green tint goes red. WORDS follow in the middle of the screen.
WARNING: MISSILE DETECTED
BATMAN switches to POWER JOLT.
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EXT. CITY STREET – STORMY
The BATMOBILE pops up in the air by some mechanical spring under the middle of the car. It reaches ten feet in the air as the missile passes by, untouched by an object and then BOOM!
It hit’s a nearby shack sending it to pieces.
A dead end up ahead tells BATMAN to switch to SHARP WHEELS.
The BATMOBILE’S wheels sharply turn right, the vehicle staying in the same position but moving sideways.
The CRONIE’S car is sent into the blown up shack.
7/29/2003 6:52:25 PM
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